In my last post, I pointed out that animal sacrifice and many other ancient worship practices existed well before the time of Moses. I think this fact alone gives us a trustworthy basis for accepting the authenticity of Leviticus. The reason I’m saying this is because some scholars will make the claim that Leviticus does […]
L-INTRO-6: All false religions have their origin in the holiness system God first gave to Adam
Agriculturally based religious festivals and sacrificial offerings to gods were common in the ancient world long before Israel ever came into existence. Thus, when the Lord first introduced the complex system of rituals detailed for us in Leviticus, it wouldn’t have been foreign to the Hebrews. All of these animal sacrificial rituals were just standard […]
L-INTRO-5: In ancient Israel, EVERY PERSON played a priestly role
Today, let’s start taking a look at Leviticus in its historical context and begin to lay out its basic structure. First, let me start off by saying there is one fundamental difference between the Scriptures (what the gentile church calls the Old Testament) and the New Testament. Outside of the four Gospels, the New Testament […]
L-INTRO-4: Yeshua did NOT do away with the sacrificial system, He TRANSFORMED it!
When it comes to dealing with the Book of Leviticus, Bible scholars and commentators tend to do one of two things. One is they either gentile-ize this book to the point where everything in Leviticus somehow points to Jesus and the Church. They will say that every detail of this book somehow points to Yeshua’s […]
L-INTRO-3: Minus understanding Leviticus, you will NEVER grasp the depths of Yeshua’s sacrifice
Today I want to provide the answer to the question of ‘why we should even study the Book of Leviticus at all?’. Now fair warning here. Before we even begin to touch the first verse of the first chapter of Leviticus, there is quite a bit of intro info that needs to be imparted first. […]